[Nikto-discuss] Nikto 2.02 SSL Scan won't work

[Jon Hart]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 01:47:35PM -0400, Kurt Keiser wrote:
> I'm currently running Fedora Core 7 with the latest version of OpenSSL and
> have the NET::SSLEAY perl module installed.  I cannot get Nikto 2.02 to scan
> https sites.
> 
> I had the same issue with 1.36.  Luckily the FC7 rpm for it worked.  For
> some reason the source files will not work.  Does anyone have any advice?  
> 
> I get the error on sites that have ssl.  "No HTTP(s) ports found on x.x.x.x"
> when running the following command.   Nikto -h x.x.x.x -port 443 -ssl

I have definitely seen this problem before.  Prior to 2.x I had
a hacked-up local copy that was able to work around the issue, but
I don't recall the specifics.

I can replicate this behavior with 1.35, but not with 2.02.  

-jon